Gil's LotD

Gil's link of the day!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4532245984549289375 A parody of Hollaback Girl by a bunch of Indian guys.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6943201001782160188 Japanese TV clip showing a water rocket launcher.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ The Linux Distribution Chooser.
http://www.local6.com/news/5784303/detail.html A news story about an Elmo toy that shipped with a "Time to Die" recording.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.wellington.org/nandor/chemwords/chemwords.htm Interesting words formed from chemical formulas.
http://www.madville.com/link.php?id=123683&t=23 How to recover a CRT monitor that has been damaged by magnets.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/ Amazing tidbits of second hand conversations.

12/10/05 Gil's LotD!
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kansas.html From the Annals of Improbable Reseach: A study showing Kansas is flatter then a pancake.

12/7/05 Gil's LotD!
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-127 A list of things that you never see computers doing in the movies.

12/5/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.ul.com/turkeyfryers/fryer.mpg The dangers of deep-fat turkey fryers.

12/4/05 Gil's LotD!
http://bringbacksincerity.blogspot.com/2003/11/rejected-entries-submitted-for.html Rejected quotes for a look at New York life.

5/27/07 Gil's LotD!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NKiJ8PVGbT0
The trailer for Pirates of the Great Salt Lake.
http://www.jumbojoke.com/the_king_of_speed_844.html
A crazy little anecdote from a pilot of a SR-71.

5/23/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_wL0ZZi6k A video tour of how camera lenses are made. I love these types of videos.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7038758514398564533 hey, that's fr. o

5/22/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfF9jGD-7E0 A stitched-together music video for a disco cover of the Star Wars soundtrack. It's the best selling instrumental single to this day.
http://www.worldwidewank.com/generator.html Warning, NSFW. A silly masturbation synonym generator.

5/21/07 Gil's Link of the Day!
After today I'm going back to 2 links per email for the summer.
http://www.bibliobuffet.com/bb/content/view/186/195/ Bacon bookmarks.
http://www.progressquest.com/ Progress Quest: sit back and let the RPG play itself.
http://www.hactrn.net/sra/vaxen.html A very good short story about a VAX machine in a data center full of unfamiliar operators.

5/20/07 Gil's LotD!
http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Classics-Week-Chocolate-Covered-SQL-.aspx The software that designed this packaging had a SQL bug resulting in the query being printed on the package.
http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=goodiewf2.jpg That's right.
http://www.boundarystones.org/ A project to recover and photograph the original boundary stones of Washington, DC.

5/19/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.opentopia.com/showcam.php?camid=4239 Stalker time: live webcam of a dental office in Japan.
http://80.126.134.185:8085/cgi-bin/guestimage.html More webcams: watch a pool in what looks like a school.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_gays_should_not_be_allowed_to_edit_articles Wikipedia policy on editors who are friends of gay men/women.

5/13/07 Gil's Link of the Day!
http://www-old.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/ An online program that you can use to transform and play with your face.
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=475270221&size=o&dupe A cool magazine ad for a travel company.
http://www.math.harvard.edu/%7Eknill/mathmovies/index.html It's a directory of movies with math mentioned and links to the clips.

5/8/07 Gil's LotD!
http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ SAGE, open source math software. Does it go in the email field?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNp7QKugzZE Music video for a remix of Gay Boyfriend by The Hazzards. The original video is in the sidebar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HaNbsIfp0 A cover of the HD-DVD key.

5/7/07 Gil's Link of the Day!
http://www.judgeabook.blogspot.com/ A blog all about judging books by their covers.
http://www.dantefilm.com/trailer.html Trailer for a remake of Dante's Inferno using paper dolls. It looks really cool, and if your computer can handle it view the HD trailer. Isn't QuickTime great?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSvJwUFI_es The Pulp Fiction trailer with Muppets edited in to the clip. SFW

5/3/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOvq3-oG5BM A preview video of Sumotori Dreams, a tiny and funny game. The link for the download is in the description and be sure to see the video.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263297 The latest scam in Japan is selling people sheep and calling them poodles?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHi-ZcvFV_0 A parody Facebook infomercial.

5/2/07 Gil's LotD!
http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html Guess whether a line of text was translated into English by Babelfish or was written by Faulkner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHH8Q4xxt2U An alternate ending to The Empire Strikes Back.
http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/04/1590-gun-powder-flask-sundial-compass.html A gunpowder flask AND pocket watch.

4/30/07 Gil's LotD!
http://ursulav.deviantart.com/ LOL WUT
http://youtube.com/watch?v=puzFWDPy3i0 A very funny stand up performance. Be sure to see the other videos in the sidebar.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/showmeeuphoria/278635073/in/photostream/ Crazy praying mantis.

4/22/07 Gil's LotD!
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Worst_100_Pick-Up_Lines_of_All_Time Uncyclopedia on the worst pick-up lines ever.
http://duxlist.com:81/ A site which tests users' ability to distinguish between a lossless (perfect) and a version of the song compressed with AAC. If you look at the statistics, even with thousands of participants the people able to tell right vs wrong is still close to 50-50%.
http://fooplot.com/ A very neat little AJAX app you can use to plot many types of functions quickly.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.local6.com/money/5882517/detail.html Weird warning labels.
http://www.introecon.com/ An entire econ textbook for free on the internet.

Gil's link of the day!
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Kitten_huffing A satirical article about the dangers of kitten huffing.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/index-covers.html Every single cover to every issue of Mad Magazine.

10/5/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.thebubbleproject.com/ An art project that placed thousands of speech bubbles around New York.

10/4/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,5-2005380599,00.html A list of the worst album covers ever.

Gil's link of the day!
http://ytmnd.com/ You're The Man Now Dog, random short webpages consisting of a single image and sound.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.wonderfullywacky.com/pedestrianturnsignal.htm Turn signals for people.

Gil's LotD!
http://www.ratemynetworkdiagram.com/index2.php In the same vein as Am I Hot or Not is Rate my Network Diagram.
http://www.distopia.com/corporate/english.html Have some fun around the office with these mock official warning posters for employees.